Cards for playing games



R. C. JOHNSON.

'CARDS FOR PLAYING GAMES. APPLICAIIONIFILED JuNEa. 1921..

1,410,922 Patented Mal; 28,1922.

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CARDS FO'R PLAYING GAMES-.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23, 1921.

1,410,922, Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

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R. C. JOHNSON.

CARDS FOR PLAYING GAMES. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 23. v1921.

Patented Mar. 28, 1922.

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ROBERT CRAWFORD JOHNSON, or LEICESTER, ENGLAND.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23, 1921., Serial No. 479,755.

(GRANTED UNDER THEPROVISIONS OF THE ACT OF MARCH 3, 1921, 41 STAT. L,1313.)

To all whom tmag concern:

Be it known that I RoBnR'r CRAWFORD .IoHNsoN, a subject of the King oiGreat Britain, residing at Glen Capel, at Central Avenue, Leicester,England have invented new and useful Cards for Playing Games (for whichI have filed application in Eng? land on the 5th of August, 1919, Number19,269,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to cards for playing illustrated or produced uponit patches of colour resulting-from the blending of certaln othercolours in proportions which are indicated upon the respective cards;for instance, one cardmay have illustrated upon.

it a patch of light green with an indication that such colour can beformed from the blending of yellow and blue in the proportions of two ofthe former to one of the latter. i

In practice each group or set of cards comprises a key card, havingillustrated upon it a large patch or patches of what I term a key colourand a series of smaller patches in suitable and accurate proportions ofcolour, clearly specifying the colours to be blended which willproducethe key'card colour; and twoor more playing cards with stripes orpatches of those colours which when suitably blended will form thecolour of the key card. For instance, a key card may have upon it alarge patch of purple colour with an indication that a mixture of twoparts of blue and one part of red produces purple. Again a playingcardmay have upon it a patch or stripe of blue which if blended with twoparts of red wouldproduce light-purple; one part of yellow, green; twoparts of yellow, light-green; one part of white, light blue; or with onepart vof red and one part of yellow, black.

In combination with cards grouped as above described I advantageouslyuse a series of cards illustrated with the colours of the rainbow andthe complementary cards ofwhich are each illustrated with one of thecolours of the rainbow and an indication of the other colours thereof.

In a modification, the key card, instead of being furnished with anindication of the mixtures required to producethe colour on thesaid keycard, is furnished with a patch of colour only, and the necessaryindications for the production of all'the various key card colours aregiven on a separate card. I I

To enable the invention to be fully unmeted Manes, 1922. p

derstood,I will describe it by reference to the accompanying drawing, inwhich Figure 1 is a view of one arrangement of key card.

Figures 2 and 3 are views of'two playing cardshaving diagonal strips ofcolour andother strips of different colours with indiz'ations as to theformation of the latter from the colours of the diagonal strips andother-colours, 1 1

Figure 4 is aview similar to Figure 1 of a modified form of key card."

Figurefi is a view of a playing card showing a broad strip of one of thecolours of the key card shown in Figure 4: and also narrow strips of allthe colours on the said ke card. i

*igure 6 is a view similar to'Figure 1 of a modified formof key cardand,

Figures 7 and 8 are views of individual playing cards containing thecolours necessary to produce that on the saidkey card and Figure 9 is aviewof a key card slightly modified from that shown in Figure 4.

F igurelO is a view of one of the'individual playing cards used'inconnection with this latter form of key card. I

Figure 11 is a View of a card of instructions forusc with thecards'illustrated in Figures 6 to 8.

Torfacilitate comprehension o fthe drawing I have, in the followingdescription, in-

;dicated the colours which are employed by the'following numericaldesignations, that is to say, the numeral 1 indicates the colour red, 2the colour orange, 3 the colour'yel low, a the colour gr'een, 5 thecolour blue, 6 the colour purple or violet. I l

Referring first to the embodiment oi? the invention shown in Figures 1to 3, the key card. a, Figure 1, is divided by ahorizontal division 5into two spacesc having patches of one of the colour mixtures, say,purple or violet, Eac h ,ofithe spacesahowever, is.

also, in one corner divided into spaces (Z, e, and: grespectively, thespaces 6, f and g comprising' patches of colours from which patchesthepatch or mixture c'is obtained. For ,example,'in the case of purple,these strips 6, f and g would be marked respectively, blue, red, blue,as'indicated by the numbers 5, 1, 5. The division (Zcontainsinstructions as to the composition of the colour, for example,mixed from two blue. and one red.-

h, each of which isdivided into halves as indicated at h andeach ofwhichhalves is dividedinto three parts, In Figure 2 one of thesewpart'sof each half has two blue diagonal strips, indicated by the. numeral 5,onv a white ground, whilst the other parts z', are divided; into aseries of horizontal strips. .Thes estrips in the part xi oi each. halfbeing of different colours, for exampledark green,

light green, darkpurple, light purple, dark blue, black, indicated bythe numerals ea,

452),, 6a, 6Z2,.oa.and :7, respectively. The card shown n Figure 3.showsa diagonal strip of red indicated by the numeral 1 anda series ofhor zontal stripsof colours. Theparts j oflthese cards, adjacent to thestrips of colour 2', contain an indication ofthe colours from whichthose. shown .onthe strips are produced. as Will; be understood, in allcases, the basis of thecolours shown on the strips/i is the colour shownon the diagonal strip or strips on the card in question.

' Figure lshows a modification of key card a inwhich the colours red,orange, yellow, green, blue and purple, are shown-in the form of arainbow on each half '0 of the card, and are indicated by the numbers 1,2, 3, 4,5 and6 respectively. The card shown in Figure5, which is one ofthe cards forming the set with the rainbow card, contains" one of thecolours shown in the rainbow card in the form of a wavy: strip, forexample, the'colour red, indicatedby the numeral 1 on each half 0 of thecard.-- Each half is also provided with central strip in which the liveremaining colours of the rainbow are set 360,

out in miniature as indicated by theseveral numerals.

. In thearrang'ement of cards shown in'Figures 6to 11, Figure Gshows akey card ct 'divided asin the case of Figure 1;:into halves c by thedivision line 6, each of the spaces Figures 2 and 3 indicate two'playingcards 7 0 obtained being coloured with a particular colour, such, forexample, as purple ind i cated by the Figure 6. In other words this cardis similar to that shown in Figure l. with the exception that the spaces(Z, c, f and g are dispensed with.

Figures 7 and 8 illustrate the cards of the setused with the key. cardshown in, Figure 6 and are similar to the cards shrown in Figures 2 and3with the exception that they contain the diagonal colour stripswithoutnumeral 1.

Figure 11 indicates a chart designed to be used in connectlon with theplaying cards shown in Figures 6 to 8 and 9 and 10, respectively. Thischart comprises a series of coloured patches 70, comprising colours ofthe rainbow as shown by the numerals marked upon them and a series ofpatches Z which bear colours produced by vv the mixing ofcolours on thepatches m, 1 V

As will be realized, the colours on, the patches '1 correspond with allthe colours shown on the various key cards included in each completegrouper: .setof cards.

Apack comprises 53 cardsma-de'up of-sets, I i

each setcomprising a keycard a and the so I called playing cardshcontainlngthe colours from which that on the key card can be produced bynnxlng.

ject in all cases being to foster a knowledge of the colours produced bythe-mixing of the primary and secondary colours, this being effectedbythe arrangement or collection of the .several cards forming a set,each. of

which set is discarded when complete.

I am aware that it is known to distinguish 'diiierent groups or suits ina packot'p'laying cards by different colours and that it has furtherbeen proposed to provide a pack of four suits, three of which arerespectively coloured with the primary colours red, yellow, and blue,whilethe fourth bea-rsa neutral mixtureof the same colours, formingblack It has; also been suggested-that a pack. of playing cards colouredin accordance with such a scheme may be use d to'illustrate .the scienceof colours-, li'ght andthe vibration theory, but it willbe obvious suchapack is not adapted to fulfil theobject of my present invention.

The cards may be used ;ior playing games many convenient way andaccording to any suitable rules, the ob- Claims. i-

1. Playing cards of the kind herein described consisting of a series ofgroups of cards, each group comprising a key card and complementarycards, the key cards having one or more main patches of a certaincomposite or key colour and also supplementary patches of colours with adesignation that the latter colours when blended produce the colours ofthe main patches whilst each of the complementary cards grouped witheach key card has one or more patches of colour, the total number ofpatches on the said complementary cards agreeing in number and colorwith the patches of primary colours on the key card.

2. The combination with complementary cards as defined by claim 1, ofkey cards having one or more patches of a certain composite or keycolour which would be the result of blending the patches of colour onthe said complementary cards and a chart or card on which is indicatedall the colours of the key cards and of the complementary cards withdesignation as to the mode of blending the colours on the latter toproduce those on the key cards.

3. The combination with groups of play ing cards as defined in claim 1,of groups of cards, each group comprising a key card and complementarycards, the key card having the colours of the rainbow indicated thereonWhilst the supplementary cards are distinguished by one of such colours,the remaining colours of the rainbow being also indicated on each of thesaid complementary cards but in a group independent of thedistinguishing colour of the card.

4:. The combination with groups of playing cards as defined in claim 1,of groups of cards, each group comprising a key card and complementarycards, the key card having 1 e cards but in a group independent of thedistinguishing colour of the card.

6. The combination with groups of playing cards as defined in claim 2,of groups of cards, each group comprising a key card and complementarycards, the key card having the colours of the rainbow indicated thereonwhilst the complementary cards are distinguished by one of such colours.

ROBERT CRAWFORD JOHNSON.

